
Person
Marija Kavtaradzė
Directing · Born 1991-06-03 · Vilnius, Lithuania
Biography
Marija Kavtaradze graduated from the Academy of Music and Theater, Vilnius, with a BA in directing. She has been making films and writing screenplays for films since 2010. Since her debut in the film industry, Marija Kavtaradze was immediately noticed and appreciated by the Lithuanian film community. Marija Kavtaradze's short films The Last Man (2011) and I Am in My Twenties (2015) were awarded Silver Crane Eggs for best student work. Marija Kavtaradze (along with director Andrius Blaževičius and her sister Tekle Kavtaradze) has also been awarded the Silver Crane for the script of the movie The Saint. Marija Kavtaradze’s best-known movie Summer Survivors appeared in theatres in 2018. It opened Toronto Film Festival in 2019, the film received a special viewer award at the European Film Festival in Lecce, Italy; it was recognized as the Best Baltic Film at the Tallinn Film Festival, and it also won Young Jury Prize at Tofifest Festival in Poland, 2019. The film was voted the best Lithuanian film at the Film Spring Awards.
Known for

The Visitor
Writer

The Saint
Writer

Laikinai
Writer

Renovation
Casting
Igloo
Director

Through the Fields
Screenplay

Slow
Director

Parade
Casting
Miss Venezuela
Writer

Floor Scrapers
Director
Filmography
- 2025The VisitorWriter
- 2025RenovationCasting
- 2025BFFWriter
- 2023SlowDirector
- 2023ParadeCasting
- 2023Crosswalk That Wasn't ThereSelf
- 2022The PoetCasting
- 2022We Might Hurt Each OtherCasting
- 2021RunnerCasting
- 2019Summer SurvivorsDirector
- 2019When Children Come HomeWriter
- 2019Through the FieldsScreenplay
- 2017The SaintWriter
- 2015IglooDirector
- 2014I’m Twenty SomethingDirector
- 2014Floor ScrapersDirector
- 2014After RaveWriter
- 2013The BombAssistant Director
- 2013YoungbloodDirector
- 2013Normal People Don't Explode ThemselvesDirector
- 2011LaikinaiWriter
- —Miss VenezuelaWriter
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